| Rath said: In any case, even if you do believe that these people have a mental illness it makes no difference to what was originally being debated which is basically whether it is morally right for a person who has the body of one gender and gender identity of another to get a sex change. |
I don't know what you're missing but it makes all the difference in the world. If they in fact have a mental condition then their perceived gender identity is no more valid a perception than someone who sees things that aren't there. If someone who is Bipolar has a manic episode nobody thinks its ok to let them do what they think/feel is right because they are not capable of making those decisions rationally. So why would it be any less morally objectionable to allow someone who has another mental condition to act on their delusions simply because they don't seem as strange?
From what I read on wikipedia it is pretty well established as a psychiatric issue and is dealt with on the mental side of medicine not the physical. But aside from that I have a very hard time believing that somebody of sound mind would fully believe that they were a man trapped in a woman's body or vice versa. Granted everyone has issues, but that just strikes me as a textbook delusion. There are 3 criteria to meet the modern psychatric standard for a diagnosis of delusional (quoting from wikipedia):
- certainty (held with absolute conviction)
- incorrigibility (not changeable by compelling counterargument or proof to the contrary)
- impossibility or falsity of content (implausible, bizarre or patently untrue)
They definitely hold the view with conviction, thier own body and DNA is proof to the contrary, and its fairly implausible and definitely bizarre. So yeah, delusional seems to be a factually correct term to use for this.
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